Wildlife Photography from Ireland.: Invertebrates

Angle Shades Moth

Hairy Dragonfly

Compound Eyes of the Greenbottle Fly

Small Wolf Spider ( Lycosa pullata) Autumn 2011

Caterpillar of the Elephant Hawk Moth (Deilephila elpenor) Autumn 2011

Seven Spot Ladybird (Autumn 2011)

German Wasp on Ivy Berries

Bumblebee flying to a Bluebell for nectar.

Bumble-Bee

Bumblebees

Compound Eyes of the Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly

Mating Damselflies.

Blue Tailed Damselfly

Cinnabar Moth Caterpillars on Ragwort.

Grasshopper, photographed mid-leap.

Male Blue-Tailed Damselfly in mid-flight.

Common Hawker Dragonfly

Emerald Damselfly in mid-flight

Common Hawker Dragonfly in mid-flight

Drone Fly

Orange Tip Butterfly

A Swarm of Honey Bees.

Common Blue damselfly in mid flight.

Four Spotted Dragonfly just after emerging from Nymph skin.

Common Blue damselfly in mid flight

Red Admiral Butterfly

Female Banded Demoiselle

Ringlet Butterfly

Seven Spot Ladybird

Damselfly

A Garden spider in it's web.

Oak Eggar Moth

Orb Web Spider

Banded Demoiselle

Common Field Grasshopper.

Mayfly

A Garden Spider waits in it's web.

Grasshopper

Large Red Damselfly

Caterpillar on a Cuckoo Flower

Drone Fly in Flight

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly

Black Snake Milipede

Feathered Thorn Moth (Colotois pennaria) and a mighty Oak Tree.

Common Hawker Dragonfly.

Poplar Hawk-moth.

Green Veined White Butterfly in flight.

Red Ant

Cockchafer Beetle or May Bug

Orange Tip Butterfly in flight

Hairy Dragonfly at rest.

Common Hawker Dragonfly

Garden Spider

Bumblebee

Bumblebee approaching a Vetch flower

Soldier Beetle

Red Admiral Butterfly

Orb Web Spider

Female Wolf Spider protecting her young.

Azure Damselfly

German Wasp in mid flight.

Brown Hawker Dragonfly

Emerald Damselfly

Brown Hawker Dragonfly

Caterpillar of the Grey Dagger Moth

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Green Veined White Butterfly in mid-flight.

An Orb Web Spider

Elephant Hawk Moth

Orange Tip Butterfly

Mayfly

7 Spot Ladybird

Azure Damselfly

Pale Tussock Moth

Water Boatman

Blue Damselfly

Oak Beauty Moth.

Great Water Diving Beetle

Green Veined White Butterfly

Hairy Dragonfly

Hawthorn Shield Bug

The compound eyes of a fly.

Ichneumon Wasp sizing up a sawfly larvae.

Gaussima silk produced by young spiders on pasture.

Orb Web Spider

Cinnabar Moth

Common Field Grasshopper.

Elephant Hawk Moth.

A Garden Spider waits in it's web.

Red Ant

Peacock Butterfly

Feathered Thorn Moth (Colotois pennaria) and a mighty Oak Tree.

Garden Spider and her web.

Banded Demoiselle Damselfly (male)

Green Veined White Butterfly on a dandelion seed head.

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly in flight.

Brown Hawker Dragonfly.

Nymph of The Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly.

Cockchafer Beetle or May Bug

Brown Hawker Dragonfly laying her eggs in damp soil.

Buff Tip Moth Caterpillar

Common Hawker Dragonfly

Banded Demoiselle Damselfly (female)

Bumblebee collage

German Wasp

Horse Fly or Cleg

Emerald Damselfly

Red Admiral Butterfly

Orb Web Spider

Bumblebees.

Orb Web Spider.

Green Veined White Butterfly

Hawthorn Shield Bug

Insect life from the undergrowth.

Peacock Butterfly on Knapweed

Pale Tussock Moth

The Devil's Coachhorse Beetle

Orb Web Spider

Great Water Diving Beetle

Mating Damselfies

Common Field Grasshopper.

Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly

Green Caterpillar

Common Darter Dragonfly (male)

Peacock Butterfly

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly.

The Marmalade Fly

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly

Peacock Butterfly

Feathered Thorn Moth (Colotois pennaria) and a mighty Oak Tree.

Banded Demoiselle Damselfly

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly in flight.

Green Veined White Butterfly in flight.

Emperor Moth

Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly in flight

Honey Bee collecting nectar from bramble

Poplar Hawkmoth

Grasshopper

Centipede

Earth Worm

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly

White Ermine Moth.

A species from the bacchini family of hoverflies

Red Admiral Butterfly

Orb Web Spider

Carder Bees

Green Veined White Butterfly

Gold Spot Moth

Hawthorn Shield Bug

Insect life from the undergrowth.

Leafhopper juvenile

Wood Louse

Alderfly

The Sun Fly or Hoverfly

Hawthorn Shield Bug.

Common Darter Dragonfly

Hairy Dragonfly (male)

Mosquito

Dragonfly Nymph skin post emergence.

Bumblebee nectar feeding.

Compound Eyes of a Horse Fly

Poplar Hawk-moth.

Speckled Wood Butterfly in flight.

Green Veined White Butterfly in flight

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly

Ringlet Butterfly

Hatching Mayfly

Orange Tip Butterflies

Black Snake Millipede

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly

Common Hawker Dragonfly

Daddy Long Legs Spider

A species from the bacchini family of hoverflies

Red Admiral Butterfly

Hawthorn Shield Bug

Insect life from the undergrowth.

Hedgerow Insect nectar feeding.

Oak Eggar Moth.

Wood Louse

Green Spider

The Sunfly or Hoverfly.

Green Veined White Butterfly.

Hawthorn Shield Bug.

Mosquitos in flight.

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly emerging from Nymph skin

Speckled Wood Butterfly in flight.

Caterpillar of the Buff Tip Moth

Common Blue Damselfly in flight

Red Admiral Butterfly

Hairy Dragonfly

Common Hawker Dragonfly

Azure Damselfly.

Wolf Spider

Hedgerow Insect on Knapweed

Common Darter Dragonfly

Orange Tip Butterfly

Common Darter Dragonfly

Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly

Common Hawker Dragonfly in flight.

Orange Tip Butterfly

Green Veined White Butterfly in flight.

Grasshopper (mid leap)

Seven Spot Ladybird

Brown Hawker Dragonfly

Azure Damselfly hunting midge flies.

Drinker Moth Caterpillar

Wolf Spider

Peacock Butterfly on Knapweed

Common Wasp

Emerald Damselfly

Common Hawker Dragonfly

Garden Spider Web

Hairy Caterpillar

Common Darter Dragonfly

Wolf Spider

White Ermine Moth

Banded Demoiselle Damselfly

Common Darter Dragonfly

Woodlice.

Common Hawker Dragonfly

Honey Bee returning to the Swarm.

Garden Spider spinning a web.

Emperor Moth

Elephant Hawkmoth Caterpillar

Honey Bee collecting nectar.

Common Hawker Dragonfly

Orange Tip Butterfly

Red Ant

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly in flight about to land on a Rush stalk.

Cockchafer Beetle

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly nymph skin

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly freshly hatched.

Poplar Hawkmoth

Green Caterpillar

Cockchafer Beetle

Peacock Butterfly

Black Slug.

A pair of Hairy Dragonflies in the mating position

Blue Damselfly feeding on a mosquito.

Orange Tip Butterfly in flight

Black Snake Millipede

White Ermine Moth

Garden Spider

Common Blue Damselfly in flight

Drinker Moth Caterpillar on a Cuckoo Flower

Early Thorn Moth

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonflies

Poplar Hawk Moth

Rhinoceros Beetle

The Dor Beetle

The Painted Lady Butterfly

Whirligig Beetles.

Speckled Wood Butterfly in flight.

Bumblebee

Bumblebee approaching a Vetch flower

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly

Weevil

Grey Dagger Moth caterpillar

Honey Bee Swarm

Bumblebee

Peacock Butterfly

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly

Black Snake Millipede

Blue Tailed damselfly in flight

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly

Wasp flying into it's nest

Emerald Damselfly in flight

Forest Shield Bug

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly

Moth on a TV screen

Bumblebee flying away after collecting nectar from a field rose.

Emerald Damselfly in flight

Silver Y Moth

Sawfly larva

Common Hawker Dragonfly

Brown Hawker Dragonfly

Four-spotted Chaser Dragonfly

Small Copper Butterfly

The Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly

The Ringlet Butterfly

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly

Cuckoo Bee

Peacock Butterfly

Soldier Beetle in flight

Bumblebee flying into it's nesting chamber.

Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly in flight.

Mayfly, seconds after emerging from it's larval skin.